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Remember when the biggest sexual concerns you had were getting pregnant and being safe to avoid STDs? Age might do away with one of those worries, but sexually transmitted diseases don’t care who you are, or how many years you’ve been around. You’re not safe if you’re not playing it safe.
While there are no 100% guarantees against STDs, aside from, perhaps, abstinence, using a condom greatly reduces the risk of becoming infected. You learned about condoms in high school, or maybe younger. So why are so many people middle-aged or older contracting herpes, chlamydia, and gonorrhea?
The National Health Service (NHS) for Scotland reveals some enlightening, and upsetting, statistics. They show a dramatic rise in STDs among Scottish citizens age 45 and over. This trend isn’t restricted to Scotland, either. The federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the US reveal a similar trend.
With older adults being more educated and experienced, you’d think STDs wouldn’t be much of an issue. But they are, and here’s why:
Don’t STDs Usually Affect Younger People?
STDs are often thought of as a younger person’s problem. When you’re young, you may have several different sexual partners. It’s obvious that you have to be safe, although not everyone is.
It’s true that number of younger people who contract STDs remains enormously larger than older people. However, the percentage increase is where those numbers become a bit of a shocker.
Deadline News (UK) says in 2012, there were 631 new cases of herpes, chlamydia, and gonorrhea reported in Scottish people over 45. For the under-25 group, that number was 15,135. But the percentages show the trend. For older people, there was a 146% increase from 2003 to 2012, while increase for people under 25 was 46%.
As a result of these numbers, the citizens of Scotland have received a warning about re-learning just how important safe sex really is.
Why the Rise in STDs Among Older Adults?
Older people should be better educated and more experienced, so the increase in STDs in this age group merited some investigation. Some of the reasons are a lot simpler than you may think.
People over the age of 45 may have grown up with the mindset that STDs happen to other people, and the only motivation to use a condom was to prevent pregnancy. Over 45, pregnancy is a lot less likely. So for some people, the main reason for using a condom “back in the day” could be a non-issue now.
Other reasons may be the divorce rate, and death of a spouse. People who were married for many years, but then found themselves single again later in life, could easily think, “I know I am healthy, most everyone else must be healthy, too.” Unfortunately, that’s flawed thinking because you just can’t tell by looking at a person.
Let’s say that you have only had a few sexual partners in your life, and you know for a fact that you are disease free. Your next partner may have a different story. Remember the old campaign for safe sex: When you sleep with one person, you’re also “sleeping with” everyone in his or her past.
That’s how diseases spread — from one person to the next. And you probably won’t know all of the people in any partner’s past.
A Boon for Erection Health May Play a Role
Still other reasons for this alarming trend are better health and longer lifespans. The “better health” part sounds contradictory, but it’s not.
A healthier population tends to live longer. So there are more people over the age of 45 in the world now, and older people are no less inclined to desire sex than anyone else. A man in his 70s might not think about it as often as a man in his 30s, but he thinks about it.
Unfortunately, older men who are otherwise very healthy might suffer from problems with erection health. Men with controlled health conditions, such as diabetes and high blood pressure, often face the same problem. The erection medications, Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra, help many men improve their sexual health by encouraging their bodies produce erections more akin to the ones they had in youth.
So there’s a larger over-45 population, and they have the desire for sex. With erection health medications, more of these men, and consequently more women, can have what they want. What they don’t want is an STD. But without safe sex, it’s bound to happen.
What to Do About This Trend
The first step in controlling a problem is to educate. Sure, you already know all of the fundamentals of sex. You might just be an expert! Education in this sense means revisiting the lectures you’ve heard in the past about sexually transmitted diseases, and how to avoid them.
The Family Planning Association in the UK started an ad campaign for just this purpose in 2010. It was aimed at Baby Boomers, and the focus was using a condom. The ads were really clever, too.
Each one featured a fashion ad from the 60s, and began with the statement, “Remember wearing this? Then remember to wear this.” At the side of the text was an image of a condom. Pretty simple. Remember being safe when you were young, and do it again now.
Sexually transmitted diseases range from bothersome to deadly. You might meet the best dressed, most attractive person in the world, and never know that he or she is harboring an STD until it’s too late to avoid contracting it. But the same might be true for someone you’ve known a long time. It’s not like friends want to advertise it.
Gonorrhea might be at the lower end of the danger scale, as it’s simple to cure. But older Americans are also susceptible to HIV/AIDS. The CDC says people over the age of 55 accounted for 19% of Americans infected with the AIDS virus in 2010. And of newly infected people, the same age group accounted for 5%.
Age is no protector against sexually transmitted diseases. As many of the safe sex ads have said, the best prevention is abstinence; the next best is to use a condom.
With all of the evidence showing an increase in STDs among older people, erection health medication might seem like tempting the odds. It’s not. Health includes sexual health, and there is no reason to deny yourself one of the greatest joys in life.
Use an erection health medication, if you need and want it. But be smart about it. Safe sex isn’t just for the young; it’s also for the young at heart. The smarter you are, the longer you’ll enjoy safe, healthy sex.
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